by svsauthor | Oct 18, 2026 | Uncategorized
I don’t often write about the process of writing in my weekly blogs. I think about it though, and recently a particular question has been gnawing at me. For the past month, I have been editing material I’d written over a year ago, and I find myself asking...
by svsauthor | Oct 11, 2026 | Uncategorized
A month ago Buzz and I burned out the outboard motor on Buzz’s small fishing boat. For the two weeks following, we fished from my canoe instead. We caught fish, but we also wound up with stiff backs and sore butts from sitting in the same cramped positions too...
by svsauthor | Oct 4, 2026 | Uncategorized
Time spent going down internet rabbit holes is pretty much time wasted. Still I do it, and every once in a while I come across something worth watching. Recently I found two YouTube videos in which Neil Young and Paul McCartney each described the five songs that they...
by svsauthor | Sep 27, 2026 | Uncategorized
Like other older adults with a parent who died young, I am aware that I am living years that my dad never had. Last week, on a day I spent all morning leisurely writing and all afternoon leisurely fishing, it occurred to me that not only have I outlived my dad by more...
by svsauthor | Sep 20, 2026 | Uncategorized
Two Sundays ago autumn let me know that it had arrived. I needed a fall jacket to sit outside for my morning writing. The squirrels in the yard all had bushy tails. It was only a few weeks earlier that I’d observed that their tails were unusually scraggly. If the...
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